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Design of web-image "Kosovo/Srbija -For the Honest Cross and Golden Freedom." Signs boasting the cross and four Cs have disappeared in Kosova, but were omnipresent during the 1990s throughout former-Yugoslavia. Photo taken from http://www.desura.com/groups/serbiangroup/images/kosovo-je-srbija. Figure 24. Photograph of Peter Mlakar (Leibach), Belgrade 1989. The second photograph is of Mlakar, from the well-known Slovenian-based punk band Leibach, part of the Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) collective. NSK powerfully challenge totalitarian and nationalist movements and re-appropriate authoritarian kitsch (Žižek 2006). Before their Belgrade shows in 1989, "Laibach projected a World War Two German propaganda film on the bombing of Belgrade, accompanied by extracts from agitation speeches by Milošević," spoken in German, while wearing Nazi uniforms: http://www.laibach.org/bio/. More recently, they produced the soundtrack for the movie Iron Sky, and performed parts of it in Prishtina, in 2012, at their "We Come in Peace" event.
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This dissertation examines how national and gendered ideologies in state and nation-building projects in the new Balkan state of Kosova have been mobilized and contested since the late 1980s. The dissertation contributes to an understanding of broader concerns with political and social movements in Kosova, and their engagement with cultural change....
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... Recent research shows that, in general, cultural and social identities in Kosova are constructed and shaped through a constant process of change, negotiation, and performance (Krasniqi 2014;Luci 2014;Canolli 2017). In attempting to keep up with the changes, restaurants and cafés became quintessential models of negotiation between common discourse categories including 'tradition ' and 'modernity', 'local' and 'global', 'ours' and 'theirs', 'European' and 'Oriental'. ...
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Within Local and Global Frameworks: Traditions, Changes, Challenges]
